Title | : | Ballads of a Cheechako |
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Author | : | Robert W Service |
Release | : | 2024-05-29 |
Kind | : | ebook |
Genre | : | Fiction & Literature, Books |
Size | : | 633667 |
Ballads of a Cheechako is a collection of poems about a new miner in the Arctic regions of the world. Robert W. Service writes insightful and nostalgiaprovoking verses about the gold rush as well as the thrill of Arctic adventures. Excerpt: "To the Man of the High North My rhymes are rough, and often in my rhyming Men of the High North Men of the High North, the wild sky is blazing; The Ballad of the Northern Lights One of the Down and Out—that's me. Stare at me well, ay, stare!" |